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Affiliate Marketing – the Easiest Way To Earn Good Money?

Times are tough all over, and everyone’s looking for an easy way to earn extra cash.

Normally, there are two ways to earn money:

Sell products (stuff)

Sell services (your skills)

But what if you don’t have the products or skills to sell right now? There is a third way, which is becoming more popular.

If you have the ability to publish a web page (which is easy today using WordPress or one of the many online publishing services) – or even if you just have a bunch of friends on email – you can earn good money just by promoting other people’s products and services.

Enter Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is big business these days – really big!Â And anyone can do it.

The world is fighting for our attention. There are thousands of people out there who believe they have good products (or maybe not!), and want people’s attention.

If you can help tell your contacts about these products, you can earn good money. And the best thing is, you don’t have to sign anyone up, handle any payments, package any products… All you do is point people in the right direction.

At Web Design from Scratch we help sell a few different products as affiliates, but only products we believe in (like Market Samurai, SEO PowerSuite, WordTracker, AWeber, Basecamp, Visual Website Optimizer). It’s much better (and easier) to promote something you actually love.

How Affiliate Marketing Works

In its simplest form, upon signing up as an affiliate, you get your own unique link, which you can publish online, or send out in emails.

Ben Hunt

Ben is the creator of Web Design From Scratch. He started writing articles about web design to kill time on a long train commute, and is now one of the most influential figures on the subject of effective web design. He has written three books and spoken at multiple conferences internationally.

Ben, nice article! You’re right, with the economy the way it is, more people are looking for alternatives that will help them to enjoy a good living. Certainly, corporate jobs are not that anymore!

Another suggestion is network marketing, especially with health and wellness products. It is very similar in concept to affiliate marketing, but a person can build long term customers with the products and often a good living can be made with fewer network marketing sites, not the many that affiliates need, too often.

And, best of all, as a multilevel marketing business grows, they can still offer great tools like yours and earn additional income by offering the tools to their business builders.